A third of all the inhabitants of China (which means more than 400 million people) live in the area covered by the Yangtze’s river basin. The Yangtze basin provides about half of all the fish eaten in ...

This marks the first time the combined throughput along the east-west inland waterway, often called China's "golden shipping route," exceeds 4 billion tonnes. The Yangtze River now boasts 16 major ...